close one's eyes vs misregard

close one's eyes

verb
  • To ignore something. 

  • Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see close, one's, eyes. 

  • To sleep. 

misregard

verb
  • To disregard; fail to heed; ignore; neglect. 

noun
  • Disregard; failure to heed or consider; contempt; neglect. 

How often have the words close one's eyes and misregard occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )